The best new bars in the City of London

We've found a remedy for the stress of constant Tube strikes and the frustration of working overtime: getting merry at one of these brand new City bars… Just make sure you turn up for work the next day, hangover or no hangover.

by Aby Dunsby

Best for market manipulation: Reserve Bar Stock Exchange

This has to be the only bar where bankers actually cross their fingers for a crash. This new Gresham Street boozer is the only one in London themed around a stock exchange, selling drinks at prices that change according to their popularity that evening. Bright lights and real-time screens flash green and red when drink prices rise and fall, and sirens ring to signal a crash. Relax, though – it means cheap drinks, rather than potentially losing your job. Cocktails include Black Tuesday – a delicious nod to the 1929 Wall Street crash that definitely won't leave a bitter taste in your mouth. Mmm, liquidity tastes good…

For more info, visit reservebarstockexchange.com

Best for City views: Nantucket Beach Club

We've found a remedy for the stress of constant Tube strikes and the frustration of working overtime – getting high. At Skylounge’s outdoor roof terrace, obviously. The summer pop-up has taken its inspiration from the island of Nantucket in Massachusetts, and comes with its own lighthouse, bowling alley, and a swinging bench that's perfect for swigging a vodka slush puppy cocktail on. (Don't have too many to avoid feeling swing sick – trust us, we've been there.) Snacks are heavy on seafood: chow down on lobster mac and cheese and clam chowder while you look out at the Big Smoke as the sun sets. It's as close to Cape Cod as you're going to get via the District line.

Open until 30 Sept. For more info, visit doubletree3.hilton.com

Best for historic cocktails: Threadneedle Bar

The plush interior of the Royal Exchange is having a revamp – and its new Threadneedle Bar is the ideal watering hole for thirsty City slickers. When it comes to tipples the bar's gone back in time, to 1862 specifically, when renowned bartender Jerry Thomas published America's first-ever mixology book, the Bartenders Guide. The cocktail menu will include ‘fizzy’; ‘short and seductive’; ‘long and seasonal’ and ‘timeless’ concoctions – we like the sound of the Mexican couperee, made with vanilla liqueur foam, tequila, Citronge, lime juice and syrup. The food is big on flavour: rock oyster tempura and truffled goat’s curd on sourdough are a tad more sophisticated than the fare you'd get down your local Wetherspoons.

Opens in September royalexchange-grandcafe.co.uk